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Technology, autonomy, and manipulation
Since 2016, when the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal began to emerge, public concern has grown around the threat of âonline manipulationâ. While these worries are familiar to privacy researchers, this paper aims to make them more salient to policymakers â first, by defining âonline manipulationâ, thus enabling identification of manipulative practices; and second, by drawing attention to the specific harms online manipulation threatens. We argue that online manipulation is the use of information technology to covertly influence another personâs decision-making, by targeting and exploiting their decision-making vulnerabilities. Engaging in such practices can harm individuals by diminishing their economic interests, but its deeper, more insidious harm is its challenge to individual autonomy. We explore this autonomy harm, emphasising its implications for both individuals and society, and we briefly outline some strategies for combating online manipulation and strengthening autonomy in an increasingly digital world
An integrated core competence evaluation framework for portfolio management in the oil industry
Drawing upon resource-based theory, this paper presents a core competence evaluation framework for managing the competence portfolio of an oil company. It introduces a network typology to illustrate how to form different types of strategic alliance relations with partnering firms to manage and grow the competence portfolio. A framework is tested using a case study approach involving face-to-face structured interviews. We identified purchasing, refining and sales and marketing as strong candidates to be the core competencies. However, despite the company's core business of refining oil, the core competencies were identified to be their research and development and performance management (PM) capabilities. We further provide a procedure to determine different kinds of physical, intellectual and cultural resources making a dominant impact on company's competence portfolio. In addition, we provide a comprehensive set of guidelines on how to develop core competence further by forging a partnership alliance choosing an appropriate network topology
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Small cities for a small country: Sustaining the cultural renaissance?
Copyright @ 2006 RoutledgeThis chapter explores the implications for smaller cities of adopting culture-led
regeneration strategies. It is suggested that there is a divergence between cultural
planning for long term sustainable urban cultural renaissance and culture-led
makeovers which rely on externally orientated projects devised to draw in new
visitors, residents and enterprises. Drawing on evidence from Sheffield, an industrial
city in South Yorkshire, northern England, it is suggested that small cities by thinking
big, have been seduced into entering a culture-led city competition in which the
stakes are high and the prospects of success limited
Disruptive InnovationâŠin Reverse: a Theoretical Framework to Look at New Product Development from Emerging Economies
It is now clear that emerging economies are gaining increasing importance in the global innovation system. Their actual role is perhaps the central question driving the growing interest in this topic and to which this paper attempts to respond. Although several authors have identified and discussed the process of innovation from emerging economies, it remains under-explored. We view the disruptive innovation (Christensen, 1997) and reverse innovation (Immelt et al, 2009) paradigms side by side: two theories that we think offer interesting and complementary perspectives when we position emerging markets at the centre of the stage as a source of innovation. By analyzing different definitions and descriptions provided by the literature on innovation for and from emerging economies, this paper attempts a reinterpretation of the concept of reverse innovation, defined as a type of disruptive innovation.Disruptive Innovation, Reverse Innovation, Emerging Economies, Product Development, Cost Innovation, R&D Internationalization.
Marketing management capability:the construct and its dimensions: an examination of managersâ and entrepreneursâ perceptions in a retail setting
Purpose: This paper aims to explore the relationship between corporate cultural/intangible assets and marketing capabilities by examining managersâ and entrepreneursâ perceptions in a retail setting.Design/methodology/approach: Nineteen face-to-face interviews were conducted with UK small and medium sized enterprise (SMEs) managers and entrepreneurs to identify six sub-capabilities that form marketing capability. The authors further validated the relationship between marketing sub-capabilities and its antecedent tangible and intangible assets. The qualitative approach used provided a deeper insight into the motivations, perceptions and associations of the stakeholders behind these intangible concepts, and their relationships with their customers.Findings: The research identified that there is a strong relationship between tangible and intangible assets, their components and the following capabilities: corporate/brand identity management, market sensing, customer relationship, social media/communication, design/innovation management and performance management. In addition, companies need to understand clearly what tangible and intangible assets comprise these capabilities. Where performance management is one of the key internal capabilities, companies must highlight the importance of strong cultural assets that substantially contribute to a companyâs performance.Originality/value: Previous work on dynamic capability analysis is too generic, predominantly relating to the manufacturing sector, and/or focussing on using a single case study example. This study extends the concept of marketing capability in a retail setting by identifying six sub-capabilities and describing the relationship of each with tangible and intangible assets. Through extensive qualitative analysis, the authors provide evidence that by fully exploiting their embedded culture and other intangible components, companies can more favourably engage with their customers to attain a sustainable competitive advantage.</p
Globally Distributed Software Process Engineering
Software processes is becoming a more addressed
issue in software development companies every day. These
processes are defined regardless of the environment in which
they run. To incorporate aspects of that environment is essential,
especially if referring to GSE. Despite this fact, the process itself
should not be necessary modified. This paper provides a first
draft of a research focused on software process definition,
modeling, implementation and evaluation in a GSE environment,
so as to facilitate the information exchange through a
hierarchical process that does not involve modification of specific
processes.Ministerio de EducaciĂłn y Ciencia TIN2007-67843-C06-03Ministerio de EducaciĂłn y Ciencia TIN2010-20057-C03-0
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